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The African Studies Association (ASA) is a US-based association of scholars, students, practitioners, and institutions with an interest in the continent of Africa. Founded in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in North America, with a global membership of approximately 2000. [1] The association's headquarters are at ...
The African Studies Association Italy (Italian: Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia, ASAI) is an Italian learned society of about 100 Africanists and is based both at the University of Urbino and Roma Tre University. [1] ASAI was founded in 2010 [2] and is an associated member of the AEGIS network of African studies centres in Europe.
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded by Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant to the United States, and his then-wife Amy Ashwood Garvey. The African Nationalist organization enjoyed its greatest strength in the 1920s, and was influential prior ...
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), commonly referred to as AfLIA, [1] is an international not-for-profit organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. [2][3] The Association is registered under the laws of Ghana as an NGO. It is managed under the general guidelines of its Constitution and by-laws. [4]
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a learned society dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History.The association was founded in Chicago on September 9, 1915, [1] during the National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee, as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson, William B ...
The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom ( ASAUK) formed in 1963 "to advance African studies, particularly in the United Kingdom, by providing facilities for the interchange of information and ideas and the co-ordination of activities by and between persons and institutions concerned with the study of Africa." [1]
ASA Best Book Prize. The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the United States.
She was a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the 2022 president of the African Studies Association. [2] Her twin sister Hassana Alidou was Niger's ambassador to the United States from 2015 to 2019. [3]